Reflection 6.3 and 6.13

Reflection 6.3

This is a count based on the several pages from Chapter 7 in the Educational Psychology text book.

African American male 2
African American female
Mixed group: 2 African American females, 1 white male
White female
Mixed group: 1 African American female, 2 Latino males, 1 Asian male

Within this chapter, I found a good number of African American male and females, several of them being in mixed group settings, but there were very few Latino and Asian males and females. I think that this book does a good job with diversifying, and more textbooks are trying to get a mix of races and ethnicities in their visuals.

Reflection 6.13
http://www.edchange.org/philosophy.html

Who produced this website?
This website (EdChange) was produced by team of educators from around the country/world who are passionate about diversity, multiculturalism and social justice.

How is this website intended to be used?
On their website, they mentioned that EdChange is dedicated to promoting diversity and equity to shape schools and communities so that equitable opportunities are given to all students, allowing them to achieve to their fullest abilities. This website is a way for teachers (and other educators) to get on ideas on how to develops resources, workshops, and projects that contribute to progressive change in individual students, the schools, and communities.

What biases might its developers have?
They might be biased to think that their ideas on diversity education is the best that is out there and that all teachers and schools should use their website to create change and empower students. Also, because the developers of this website feel so strongly about the work they do in their multicultural education field, they might feel that those who don’t participate in these sorts of resources are not in support or are not as passionate about diversity, multiculturalism, and social justice.

Whose view of the world does it tend to support?
It tends to support the view of the world of those who believe that there is not enough education provided on issues around diversity and equity in the schools and that conversations, dialogue, workshops, and projects are one of the best ways to go about educating people.

Whose view of the world does it undermine or ignore?
It tends to ignore the view of the world of those who believe that there is adequate education on these issues, and/or those who currently work hard to provide equity, diversity and multicultural education to the schools, maybe just in different ways.